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Tom Burns Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-110610
Scope and Contents Note The Tom Burns Papers document the life and career of British Catholic author and long-time editor of "The Tablet" Tom Burns (1906-1995).The Tom Burns Papers contain correspondence with a number of individuals, including a small amount of correspondence with notables, such as Tom Dilworth, Eric Gill, Rev. Robert A. Graham, S.J., Harman Grisewood, Rene Hague, Basil Hume, and Michael Richey. Also included are documents about David Jones and Michael Richey. A run of a fascinating...
Dates: 1882 - 2006; Majority of material found within 1930 - 1995
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / Tom Burns Papers

Vincent Godfrey Burns Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: GTM-000021
Scope and Contents

Collection concerning the literary career of Vincent Godfrey Burns, author, lecturer and poet. Included are manuscripts (including a play titled "World on Fire"), published poetry, programs and handbills, correspondence from Burns to various public officials, and newspaper clippings.

Dates: 1926 - 1969; Majority of material found within 1960 - 1969
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / Vincent Godfrey Burns Papers

Playing Card Collection

 Collection
Identifier: GTA-000584
Scope and Contents Authors. 1119. U.S. Playing Card Co., Cinicinnati, U.S.A. Copyright, 1897. Authors represented include Will Carlton, Eugene Field, William Cullen Bryant, Charles Reade, Robert Browning, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Thomas Buchanan Read, J. Feinmore Cooper, Robert Burns, Oliver Goldsmith, William Dean Howells, Harriet Beecher Stowe, William Wordsworth, Thomas Moore, John Keats, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Louis Blafour Stevenson, William Mkaepeace Thackeray, Alexander Pope, Helen Hunt Jackson,...
Dates: 1897-1916 and Undated
Found in: Georgetown University Archives / Playing Card Collection

Harman Grisewood papers 1

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS131
Scope and Contents This collection centers around the correspondence and related papers of three important and long-standing friendships of Harman Grisewood: with the poet and artist David Jones; with printer and artist Rene Hague; and with Christopher Sykes, the celebrated biographer of Evelyn Waugh. Correspondence relating to Jones and Hague, in particular, reflects the social, literary and artistic circles which they and mutual friend Harman Grisewood, shared with acquaintances such as Thomas F....
Dates: 1916-1989; Majority of material found within 1950-1980
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / Harman Grisewood papers 1

Michael Richey Papers 1

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS223
Collection-level Scope and Content Note The Michael Richey papers 1, consist of original correspondence from personal friends who also comprise the notable circle of artists who congregated at the home of English sculptor Eric Gill (1882-1940), on Pigotts farm in Buckinghamshire. Together with Gill, these included Anthony Foster, Rene Hague, David Jones, Walter Shewring, and Denis Tegetmeier. Correspondence is also included from other well-known acquaintances (many of whom were related or closely associated to the...
Dates: 1930 - 1997; Majority of material found within 1940 - 1980
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / Michael Richey Papers 1

Joseph G. E. Hopkins papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS171
Collection-level Scope and Content Note The Joseph G. E. Hopkins Papers consist primarily of correspondence, manuscripts, and pamphlets. The papers comprise 3.25 linear feet of material arranged in 154 folders in 3 boxes (two 1.5 foot boxes and one .25 foot box). The correspondence in the collection is between Hopkins and various colleagues in the fields of publishing and American history and includes signed pamphlets by colleagues and manuscripts by Hopkins. Among the correspondents and pamphlet authors are Wayne Andrews, Cynthia...
Dates: 1939-1987; Majority of material found within 1957-1980
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / Joseph G. E. Hopkins papers

Bernard and Barbara Wall Papers 1

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS332
Collection-level Scope and Content Note The Bernard and Barbara Wall Papers: Part 2 contain correspondence and manuscripts of Bernard and Barbara Wall, two English Catholic intellectuals who had contact with the Pigotts Circle. Correspondents of the Walls include Tom Burns, Graham Greene, Vivien Greene, Harman Grisewood, Rene Hague, and Michael Richey. A manuscript by Bernard Wall entitled, "Aspects of Italian Civilisation" and manuscripts by Barbara Wall, such as her wartime diary dated 1940, her memoir of Rene Hague, and a draft...
Dates: 1556 - 1995; Majority of material found within 1968 - 1989
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / Bernard and Barbara Wall Papers 1

Harman Grisewood papers 2

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS255
Collection-level Scope and Content Note This collection comprises the second acquisition of the papers of Harman Grisewood (1906-1997). Included is a long run (Boxes 1 through 5) of correspondence from notable individuals such as W.H. Auden, Max Beerbohm, Violet Bonham-Carter, Tom Burns (editor of "The Tablet”), Winston S. Churchill, historian Christopher Dawson, B.B.C. director general Hugh Greene, Vivien Greene (wife of writer Graham Greene), Deirdre and Rupert Hart-Davis, Sibyl Hathaway (Dame of Sark), Saunders Lewis, members...
Dates: 1926-1997; Majority of material found within 1950-1990
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / Harman Grisewood papers 2

Harman Grisewood papers 3

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS338
Collection-level Scope and Content Note This collection comprises the third accession of the papers of Harman Grisewood (1906-1997), and contains primarily correspondence from family members. Of particular interest is the series of letters from Grisewood's father, Lt. Col. Harman Grisewood, written from 1936 through 1946, from Nicosia, Cyprus, where the family owned a farm in the mid- to late 1920s until the end of the Second World War. Grisewood recalls life with his family in Cyprus during the earlier of these years in chapter 3...
Dates: 1898-1991; Majority of material found within 1936-1981
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / Harman Grisewood papers 3

Michael Richey Papers 2

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS321
Collection-level Scope and Content Note The Michael Richey papers 2, consists of original correspondence from personal friends and members of the Richey family; as well as printed material including clippings, journals, and magazines featuring articles by and about Michael Richey. A portion of the correspondence is from the notable circle of artists who congregated at the home of English sculptor Eric Gill, (1882-1940), on Pigotts Farm in Buckinghamshire. These include Gill, Anthony Foster, and Rene Hague. Additional...
Dates: 1897 - 2004; Majority of material found within 1940 - 2000
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / Michael Richey Papers 2

Douglas Woodruff Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-790101
Scope and contents note The Douglass Woodruff Papers are divided into seven series. The Correspondence Series comprises 12 boxes and includes separate sections of correspondence from Evelyn Waugh, Emily Hewett Woodruff (Woodruff's letters to his mother), Marie Immaculee Woodruff, and Mildred Woodruff Tschoeberle (Woodruff's letters to his sister). The letters in this Series contain discussion on a variety of topics, most notably Catholicism, the Tablet, literary endeavors of Woodruff and others, and news regarding...
Dates: 1850 - 1982
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / Douglas Woodruff Papers

Wilfrid Parsons, SJ Papers 2

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS433
Collection-level Scope and Content Note The Rev. Wilfrid Parsons, S.J. Papers: Part 2 consist primarily of letters sent to Rev. Wilfrid Parsons, S.J., an editor for "America" Magazine, from Annie Christitch. More than 100 letters from Christitch to Fr. Parsons are retained in this collection. Christitch's letters to Fr. Parsons document in detail the role of Catholicism in Yugoslavia during the 1920s and 1930s. Her letters also touch on the subject of Catholicism in Czechoslovakia during that same period. In her correspondence,...
Dates: 1920 - 1965; Majority of material found within 1925 - 1940
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / Wilfrid Parsons, SJ Papers 2

George M. Kober Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS75
Collection-level Scope and Content Note The George M. Kober Papers consist of correspondence sent and received by. Kober dating primarily from 1897 through 1900. Correspondents include several of the presidents of Georgetown University, such as David H. Buel,S.J.; Charles W. Lyons, S.J.; W . Coleman Nevils, S.J.; and J. Havens Richards, S.J. Others include various city (D.C.) and federal government officials, as well as notable names in the medical, public health, and science fields - David Du Bose Gaillard, George M. Sternberg,...
Dates: 1892 - 1963; Majority of material found within 1897 - 1900
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / George M. Kober Papers

Pierre Leroy - Janetta Warre Collection 1

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS309
Collection-level Scope and Content Note The Leroy-Warre Collection primarily consists of correspondence from Pierre Leroy to Janetta Warre concerning the works of Teilhard de Chardin Centenary Exhibition organized by Mrs. Warre in London and Edinburgh in 1983. The material is arranged in 116 folders in 1 box. In the summer of 1983, Janetta Warre brought to London and Edinburgh the Teilhard de Chardin Centenary Exhibition which had appeared in Paris in 1981. The bulk of the collection is letters she received from Fr. Leroy...
Dates: 1982 - 1987
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / Pierre Leroy - Janetta Warre Collection 1

Hilaire Belloc - Emma Pescatore collection

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS404
Collection-level Scope and Content Note

Correspondence between Hilaire Belloc and Emma Pescatore.

Dates: 1905-1931
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / Hilaire Belloc - Emma Pescatore collection

Hilaire Belloc - Dorothy Hamilton collection

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS444
Collection-level Scope and Content Note The Hilaire Belloc - Dorothy Hamilton Collection consists of personal correspondence between Hilaire Belloc and Dorothy Hamilton. The collection also includes several letters of correspondence between Elodie Belloc and Dorothy Hamilton, letters from Belloc's children to Dorothy Hamilton, correspondence between Belloc and others, and a few letters from others to Dorothy Hamilton. Several newspaper clippings, tickets to Belloc's lectures, and Hilaire Belloc's account book for 1907-1908 are...
Dates: 1905-1943; Majority of material found within 1907-1920
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / Hilaire Belloc - Dorothy Hamilton collection

Patrick O'Mahony Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS221
Scope and Contents Material in this collection centers around the human rights work of Fr. Patrick O'Mahony, a major focus of which was on ethical employment and working condition policies and practices of multi-national companies and subsidiaries in the Third World, including South Africa, South America, and countries in Asia. Fr. O'Mahony undertook a study of the moral implications of investments and the responsibilities of shareholders, particularly with regard to the policies of his own diocese of...
Dates: 1954 - 1992; Majority of material found within 1970 - 1989
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / Patrick O'Mahony Papers

Hilaire Belloc - Allison Family collection

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS203
Collection-level Scope and Content Note

This collection contains the correspondence between Hilaire Belloc and the James Murray Allison family for the time period 1918-1941. Much of the correspondence in this collection has to do with the column Belloc contributed to "Land and Water," a periodical founded by James Murray Allison to cover aspects of the war efforts during WWI.

Dates: 1918-1941
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / Hilaire Belloc - Allison Family collection

John Douglas Woodruff - Sir Roy (Forbes) Harrod Collection

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS218
Collection-level Scope and Content Note The Harrod-Woodruff Collection comprises a series of letters from (John) Douglas Woodruff to Sir Roy (Forbes) Harrod. The Harrod-Woodruff Collection contains 47 Autograph Letters (Signed), 4 Postcards (Signed), 1 Typed Letter (Signed), and other printed material from (John) Douglas Woodruff to Sir Roy (Forbes) Harrod, as well as 1 Autograph Letter (Signed) from Mrs. Douglas Woodruff to Lady Harrod. The letters from Douglas Woodruff to Roy Harrod span the time period of 1922-1946....
Dates: 1922-1978; Majority of material found within 1922-1936
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / John Douglas Woodruff - Sir Roy (Forbes) Harrod Collection

Arnold Lunn Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS143
Collection-level Scope and Content Note The Arnold Lunn Papers consist of correspondence, manuscripts, diaries, notebooks, scrapbooks and related printed ephemera regarding the life and works of Sir Arnold Lunn (1888 - 1974). The papers, dating from 1896 to 1978, comprise 21 linear feet of material, arranged in fourteen boxes, consisting of five hundred and thirty-two folders.The papers are arranged in series according to subjects. There are five correspondence series, namely World War I Correspondence, Ski...
Dates: 1896 - 1978
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / Arnold Lunn Papers

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